I would wager that the majority of the user base still using IE6 is doing so out of ignorance (home users) or are forced to use it (employees). In the latter case, usually some technologically ignorant (and I mean that in a derogatory way) manager is afraid of making the switch to IE7 or *gasp* IE8. Of course some of the blame should be placed on developers who still decide to support IE6, although often times it's that same ignorant manager threatening to stop purchasing software that doesn't conform to their standards that forces developers to use one of the worst pieces of software ever developed in the history computing. But for developers making sites for the public, I have to wonder why some of them support IE6 at all.
They don't "own Wall Street", but they do have a considerable investment in US debt. It's simply not in their best financial interest to cause catastrophic problems for our economy.
I was thinking more on the lines of causing equipment to malfunction and break rather than a network error. But it's not really my area of expertise. You'd think there would be backups.
I'm thinking back to the 2003 northeast blackout
Not to sound like my tinfoil hat has gotten too tight, but really is this warfare? So our grid goes down. Does this mean we can't live?
Nobody said we couldn't live like it as the mid 1800's. But considering how much of our lives depend on electricity it's not something to brush off. How many people do you know own wood stoves (or fire wood for that matter) in case they lost power for weeks in the winter?
No amount of comfort is going to help a child pay attention to a subject they aren't interested in. A more comfortable position won't help me pay attention in my history class. On the contrary, it will only help keep my mind focused on a distraction, or worse doze off.
But what if that computer was portable enough to carry or fit in the skull, and could be used to store information?
I have to agree that some applications are better with hands. Namely games that were designed for the mouse + keyboard, but there are plenty of other uses that will come of better and better brain-to-computer tech.
Most Americans' understanding of the Internet is likely limited to email, social networking, and Youtube. They probably hold a poor grasp of how the Internet works. Furthermore, the definition and scope of an "Internet kill switch" are unclear.
I'm actually surprised at how low the poll results are.
The fundamental problem is people actually paying attention to TV political ads. What we need is voting reform in the form of massive civics and logic education. Teach people to cast a vote based on their own research & conclusions and not an error laden, buzzword filled TV ad that plays on people's emotions.
Of course they deserve credit, and I wouldn't want to sully their reputation. However, I see the US political right as having a generally negative opinion of the ACLU, and I don't want net neutrality to become a partisan issue.
"Does the ACLU want to allow Muslim extremists the right to terrorize your school's website? Find out more with our special report, Net Neutrality: Government Takeover"
Yes, sheep, you have the right to do that. We all have the right to blow bubles in public places. It's not a crime.
I didn't say blowing them in a public place. I said blow them in a distracting manner. In the US, the 1st amendment protects a person's right to free speech, yet it doesn't protect you from going up to someone and yelling in their face with the intent of distracting or antagonizing them (think racist following a black guy around).
detained for wearing a backpack and having a lawyer’s number written on her arm.
How. Can you. Justify. ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR THAT!? What the fuck is wrong with you? What kind of twisted, fucked up upbringing made you so blindly submissive to authority that no matter how obvious it is that they are grossly abusing their power, you will keep saying that they are right to do what they do? You disgust me, you fascist pig, you're really a horrible, horrible person.
It's too bad that you had to resolve to name calling. Perhaps I should point out that those reasons are her words. I have yet to see the documentation associated with her arrest to know the officer's reason. Or maybe you shouldn't let your emotions take over your ability to reason. There's really nothing to argue about that isn't pure speculation without having documentation.
Those are her words. We can't know the real reason for her arrest unless someone wants to spend the time to retrieve the documentation. Anything else is pure speculation.
I suppose you're right. It's just irritating that he brushes the "open vs closed" argument aside. There are important principles in computing other than the "user experience"!
"When selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time. And we also think our developers can be more innovative if they can target a singular platform rather than a hundred variants."
Integrated vs fragmented. He's just trying to redefine the terms in his favor.
She stopped when asked. Watch the video again. After he says "If the bubble touches me, you're going to be arrested for assault," no more bubbles are seen.
Right. Which is why I pointed out that it's interesting that there is no footage of her immediately prior to her arrest. According to this article, she wasn't even arrested for the bubbles.
However, according to CNews, Winkels [the lady] confirmed that she wasn’t arrested for blowing bubbles but instead detained for wearing a backpack and having a lawyer’s number written on her arm. She was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mischief over $5,000.
So are people really upset that she was asked to stop or are they just misinformed due to suggestive editing in the video?
Well he is getting paid for it. Not only is it her right to be there, the most important part of his job is to make sure she can be there.
Does that mean I have the right to walk up in public to a public employee and distract them by blowing bubbles at them just because they are being paid? What if she was doing this to a postal worker, or a meter-maid? They could call the police and she'd be told to leave. Sometimes, and in this case, that public employee and the police are the same person.
If only everyone obeyed every order the police gives them, huh? If only that chick would understand that once he puts on his uniform, he's the boss of her...
Well if he's trying to do his job, she's deliberately distracting him, and he tells her to stop? Yes.
It's interesting that the video shows no footage immediately prior to the arrest, so we really don't know why she was put into custody.
...that bubble lady was asking for it. Perhaps the officer's response was unnecessary, but I'd be pissed off if someone kept blowing bubbles at me after I asked them to stop. Not to mention the fact that her behavior indicates she's just blowing bubble to incite the officers. She said "my name is a mystery." then seconds later, "I have nothing to hide."
Maybe she didn't deserve to be arrested, but she was certainly asking for it.
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The two-passenger hybrid aims to be fuel efficient, easy to repair, safe to drive and inexpensive to own.
Nothing about that picture, from the low driver orientation to the tin-can size, exudes safety.
Even the picture from their homepage looks horrible.
I would wager that the majority of the user base still using IE6 is doing so out of ignorance (home users) or are forced to use it (employees). In the latter case, usually some technologically ignorant (and I mean that in a derogatory way) manager is afraid of making the switch to IE7 or *gasp* IE8. Of course some of the blame should be placed on developers who still decide to support IE6, although often times it's that same ignorant manager threatening to stop purchasing software that doesn't conform to their standards that forces developers to use one of the worst pieces of software ever developed in the history computing. But for developers making sites for the public, I have to wonder why some of them support IE6 at all.
I think Marco Polo probably made better time with camels. Still an impressive feat, though.
But they weren't audromedous camels.
They don't "own Wall Street", but they do have a considerable investment in US debt. It's simply not in their best financial interest to cause catastrophic problems for our economy.
I was thinking more on the lines of causing equipment to malfunction and break rather than a network error. But it's not really my area of expertise. You'd think there would be backups. I'm thinking back to the 2003 northeast blackout
Not to sound like my tinfoil hat has gotten too tight, but really is this warfare? So our grid goes down. Does this mean we can't live?
Nobody said we couldn't live like it as the mid 1800's. But considering how much of our lives depend on electricity it's not something to brush off. How many people do you know own wood stoves (or fire wood for that matter) in case they lost power for weeks in the winter?
No amount of comfort is going to help a child pay attention to a subject they aren't interested in. A more comfortable position won't help me pay attention in my history class. On the contrary, it will only help keep my mind focused on a distraction, or worse doze off.
I have to agree that some applications are better with hands. Namely games that were designed for the mouse + keyboard, but there are plenty of other uses that will come of better and better brain-to-computer tech.
I'm actually surprised at how low the poll results are.
The fundamental problem is people actually paying attention to TV political ads. What we need is voting reform in the form of massive civics and logic education. Teach people to cast a vote based on their own research & conclusions and not an error laden, buzzword filled TV ad that plays on people's emotions.
The cool thing is that at one point there are FOUR DeLoreans for a few hours in 1955, Marty I, Cowboy Doc, Marty 2 (with Doc) and Biff's.
Delorean actually made that many DMC-12s?
Why is black silicon being used in security and surveillance significant? Title should read more like "Paul Allen and others invest in Black Silicon."
Of course they deserve credit, and I wouldn't want to sully their reputation. However, I see the US political right as having a generally negative opinion of the ACLU, and I don't want net neutrality to become a partisan issue.
I can see the talking heads now...
"Does the ACLU want to allow Muslim extremists the right to terrorize your school's website? Find out more with our special report, Net Neutrality: Government Takeover"
Yes, sheep, you have the right to do that. We all have the right to blow bubles in public places. It's not a crime.
I didn't say blowing them in a public place. I said blow them in a distracting manner. In the US, the 1st amendment protects a person's right to free speech, yet it doesn't protect you from going up to someone and yelling in their face with the intent of distracting or antagonizing them (think racist following a black guy around).
detained for wearing a backpack and having a lawyer’s number written on her arm.
How. Can you. Justify. ARRESTING PEOPLE FOR THAT!? What the fuck is wrong with you? What kind of twisted, fucked up upbringing made you so blindly submissive to authority that no matter how obvious it is that they are grossly abusing their power, you will keep saying that they are right to do what they do? You disgust me, you fascist pig, you're really a horrible, horrible person.
It's too bad that you had to resolve to name calling. Perhaps I should point out that those reasons are her words. I have yet to see the documentation associated with her arrest to know the officer's reason. Or maybe you shouldn't let your emotions take over your ability to reason. There's really nothing to argue about that isn't pure speculation without having documentation.
Those are her words. We can't know the real reason for her arrest unless someone wants to spend the time to retrieve the documentation. Anything else is pure speculation.
I suppose you're right. It's just irritating that he brushes the "open vs closed" argument aside. There are important principles in computing other than the "user experience"!
"When selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time. And we also think our developers can be more innovative if they can target a singular platform rather than a hundred variants."
Integrated vs fragmented. He's just trying to redefine the terms in his favor.
Open > Closed
vs
Integrated > Fragmented
Well done Steve.
She stopped when asked. Watch the video again. After he says "If the bubble touches me, you're going to be arrested for assault," no more bubbles are seen.
Right. Which is why I pointed out that it's interesting that there is no footage of her immediately prior to her arrest. According to this article, she wasn't even arrested for the bubbles.
However, according to CNews, Winkels [the lady] confirmed that she wasn’t arrested for blowing bubbles but instead detained for wearing a backpack and having a lawyer’s number written on her arm. She was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mischief over $5,000.
So are people really upset that she was asked to stop or are they just misinformed due to suggestive editing in the video?
Well he is getting paid for it. Not only is it her right to be there, the most important part of his job is to make sure she can be there.
Does that mean I have the right to walk up in public to a public employee and distract them by blowing bubbles at them just because they are being paid? What if she was doing this to a postal worker, or a meter-maid? They could call the police and she'd be told to leave. Sometimes, and in this case, that public employee and the police are the same person.
If only everyone obeyed every order the police gives them, huh? If only that chick would understand that once he puts on his uniform, he's the boss of her...
Well if he's trying to do his job, she's deliberately distracting him, and he tells her to stop? Yes. It's interesting that the video shows no footage immediately prior to the arrest, so we really don't know why she was put into custody.
...that bubble lady was asking for it. Perhaps the officer's response was unnecessary, but I'd be pissed off if someone kept blowing bubbles at me after I asked them to stop. Not to mention the fact that her behavior indicates she's just blowing bubble to incite the officers. She said "my name is a mystery." then seconds later, "I have nothing to hide." Maybe she didn't deserve to be arrested, but she was certainly asking for it.
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